In one of worst displays of reality television-like scripted nonsense I've ever seen, the Judge presiding over who gets control of Anna Nicole Smith's body began by letting those in the court know that he "also had suffered" along with them, and then proceeded to weep despite trying to hold back his tears.

Unfortunately, there was no way to avoid this garbage on television so I eventually gave in and left it running while I worked today. I threw the remote several times at the TV after not being able to deal with the Judge after several hours of this three ring circus. For hours this guy conjectured, sermonized, and even led witnesses in their answers, and asked all kinds of off-the-wall questions (at one point began to recall his own hard life when he moved down from New York being a "stranger in a strange land," and telling about how Nicole had a rough life and how life isn't always as you hope it will be).
In the end, the only thing he did was give the remains rights to whoever is found to be next of kin, in this case it was temporarily awarded to the daughter's temporary guardian while the body will be buried in the Bahamas next to her son Daniel's grave. Basicly this is still up in the air. Way to go judge, you could have come to that ruling in hours, not days.

SO, while I'm ok with the ruling, the ENTIRE excruciating process that he dragged everyone through was horrible. It was days of this jackass posing in front of the cameras so he could come off as the loving judge from New York (new judge series, maybe new reality TV show?). He should give the taxpayers back their money it cost to put his freaking show on for everyone, and disbarred for running his court like a zoo. It might have been a warm and fuzzy petting zoo under him, but a zoo nonetheless.
Yahoo News clip
I just hope this entire thing gets buried and the people who have been fighting to get in front of the camera just go away...